The wedding celebration is filled with various ceremonies and traditions. Despite the fact that many young people do not like to adhere to the established course of life for decades, they still in the vast majority of cases choose a traditional wedding celebration.
Traditions relate to everything: meeting young people before marriage, and decorating the premises, and, of course, the appearance of the newlyweds. The bride's dress can be chic or restrained, closed or frank, but a garter will always be hidden under it. This intimate attribute can be purchased at any wedding accessories store, but if you make it yourself, it will be even more valuable. You can learn how to sew a garter for the bride with your own hands from this article.
What is a garter
Even the bride’s garter made by herself is an elastic lace ribbon on which the decor is located in the form of beads, stones and ribbons. It is customary to make a garter in accordance with the dress and decoration of the wedding, for example, if the wedding is decorated in lilac colors, then delicate purple ribbons can be placed on the garter, and if the wedding theme is shabby chic, this element of the bride’s wedding dress can be decorated with flowers and pearls. A garter is usually worn on the right foot of the future mistress of the family hearth.
What is a garter for?
Brides are very sensitive to the choice of garter, because despite the fact that throughout the wedding she will be hidden from prying eyes under the dress, at the end of the celebration she will get one of the guests.
At the end of the wedding, as a rule, a contest is organized: first, bachelors come out, then unmarried girls. The bride throws a bouquet to her unmarried girlfriends, and the one who catches him, according to signs, will marry the next. The same rule applies to the unmarried friends of the groom: the newly-minted spouse removes the treasured garter from the foot of his lady’s heart and throws it into the crowd. Anyone who becomes the owner of this little thing will soon have to say goodbye to his free status.
What may be needed
Materials for this tiny, but important part of the outfit do not need so much. In order to make a garter on the bride’s leg with her own hands, you will need:
- A meter of lace, lace tape or elastic lace tape. You can also select a section of the atlas.
- A small piece of tape that matches the color of the image.
- A few beads.
- Scissors.
- Tape measure.
- Sewing machine.
- Super glue or glue gun.
- A needle and a white thread.
Material selection
Since the garter is most often made of lace, you can immediately choose a finished lace ribbon, of which there are a lot in sewing stores. They come in different colors, with interwoven Lurex threads, with carved edges or with small non-precious pebbles. You need to choose a not very wide ribbon and before buying it is better to consider and touch it well. If the lace is too scratchy and stiff, then wearing a bride’s garter made all day long will be very uncomfortable.
It is better to take very thin ribbons, since large ribbons will look very unnatural on such a delicate image detail. It is necessary to combine lace with underwear and take into account the pattern on the ribbon stocking with a pattern on the lace. The image of the bride should be thought out to the smallest detail. If you could not find a suitable lace ribbon, you can purchase a small piece of raw lace. True, you need to know that the work on its processing will take much more time and cost such a piece of fabric will be much more expensive.
Do-it-yourself garter of the bride: a master class of garter from elastic ribbon
Making a garter is not at all difficult. Simple steps are required:
- Find the front side of the lace elastic tape: on it the picture is more clear, even, bright.
- Measure the foot with a centimeter tape in its fullest place.
- Cut the required amount of lace tape, sweep the seam manually with contrasting color threads.
- Sew the seam on a sewing machine, remove the basting threads. On this basis, the future garter is ready, if the lace ribbon was elastic.
- Next, you need to decorate the garter to your liking and in accordance with all the details of the image.
Garter made from non-stretch lace tape or fabric cut
In order to understand how to make a garter for the bride with your own hands from lace that does not stretch, you need very little.
- The first thing to do is to measure the thigh with a centimeter tape in its fullest place.
- Then to the result you need to add 20 centimeters and cut the lace.
- If not a lace ribbon, but a piece of fabric is chosen for the garter, then the width should be taken about 8 centimeters.
- Next, you need to process the edges of the lace, bending them and stitching or processing on the overlock. If there is no overlock, you can walk along the edge of the lace cut with a zigzag seam on a sewing machine.
- Then you need to sew the edges, first flashing them manually, and then on a typewriter.
- Next, you need to cut off the elastic linen elastic 2-3 cm less than the leg, sew the ends in the shape of a circle.
- You need to slightly pick up the lace ribbon and sew it to the elastic. But it is necessary to sew a centimeter through a centimeter, otherwise the garter will not stretch.
- The last step is to sew the decor.
Do-it-yourself garter for the bride
To sew a garter manually from an inelastic lace ribbon, you need:
- Cut the tape to the size of the thigh + 20 cm and a linen elastic.
- To process the edges of the lace cut, you need to bend the edge by 2 mm and sew small stitches with thread matching the tone of the lace.
- Gently make a seam by stitching the edges of the lace, stitching the edges of the elastic.
- Sew an elastic band on the inside of the lace, making a stitch, tying a knot and cutting the thread. With such stitches, you need to sew the entire gum in a circle. In this case, you need to pick up the lace so that when the elastic stretches along the leg, the lace beautifully fits the hip.
- Sew a bow folded from a ribbon to the blank, and a bead on top.
Design options
You can make a garter in so many ways. One of them is feather decoration. You can glue the feathers at their base, so as not to crush down. To hide traces of glue, beads must be glued on top. Artificial pearls or mother of pearl will look very beautiful. Feathers with imitation of precious stones go well together.
An interesting detail on the garter will be a small pendant in the form of a key. You can buy it in the store of goods for needlework or for scrapbooking. Also, such blanks for jewelry are sold in sewing stores.
You can decorate the garter with flowers made from ribbons. Such flowers are easy to roll on their own. Many from the lessons of labor know how to make ribbon flowers for the garter of the bride with their own hands. It is better to take a ribbon to match holiday decorations. Especially effective look contrasting tapes. Also, flowers can be made from foamiran. The main thing is to create them small so that they do not stick out from under the skirts or wipe away by the end of the evening under the dress. A garter with such colors will look very gentle.
Garter made from satin fabric looks interesting. It is very easy to process, drapes well. Satin produces very beautiful flowers. It is easy to burn their edges with a lighter, then they bend a little - this makes them look like the petals of real flowers. Inside, you can sew several small beads or beads instead of stamens.
An interesting decor will be a brooch nailed on a garter.
We have given simple master classes for the garter of the bride with our own hands, but there are also crocheted ones. The lace made by the bride herself will look very original. Such a garter will not be embarrassing to give to the groom's friend, although it’s very a pity, because a lot of time and love has been invested in it. It’s better not to decorate it very abundantly: a ribbon bow and small pearls are enough.
Thus, it became clear that making a garter of the bride with her own hands would not be difficult. To do this, you do not always need a sewing machine, you can cope with a needle and thread. Such an accessory will become a real highlight of the image of the bride and will not leave anyone indifferent.